Quote Originally Posted by Renkei View Post
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At the time of your initial comment, Dragoon was "barely doing 40 dps more than Dancer's" at one and only one level of play, Max. (That is, by the way, no longer true. Dragoon is now the third highest parsing job at max, behind only the two overpowered jobs, SAM and BLM, while managing far nearer to SAM's damage than SAM manages relative to BLM. It does 293 more dps than Monk, if that actually mattered.)

If split by boss, such was also true only in one fight, Ifrit & Garuda - Max. (Note also that even at Max, Dragoon is ahead of Monk on all but that one fight. That is to say, one fight in particular perhaps unfairly screws over Dragoon, rather than Dragoon lacking for raw power. ...Similarly, in Eden's Gate, that distinction went to Eden Prime, while Dragoon was neck and neck with Monk on all other fights.)

In all other tiers or fights, Dragoon was within 2% of Monk (sometimes even in Dragoon's favor), i.e. a very different story than your "Dragoon is in last place" as if by a mile.

Also,
I'm comparing Dragoon's rDPS to Monk's rDPS in Heavensward

Those two metrics didn't exist in Heavensward which is my point, You can't compare metrics that didn't exist at the time. That's an "apples vs oranges" comparison.
rDPS evaluation was already being done in Heavensward. It just wasn't the default setting of fflogs.